Tilly Trotter Widowed [Import] [Paperback]

Catherine Cookson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Corgi; New Ed edition (1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552122009
• ISBN-13: 978-0552122009
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,778,847 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master.

Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists.

After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997.

For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Will Tilly Find Happiness at 50?, August 8, 2009

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Tara (Utah) - See all my reviews
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The final novel in the Tilly Trotter trilogy had me on the edge of my seat. It opens with Tilly and her son, Willy and her adopted daughter returning to England where a bunch of rude, judgemental villagers await her. After arriving home and settling back into her late husband's estate, Tilly shows amazing bravery and brazenly faces the villagers down right after church one Sunday. Having been accused of being a witch in the previous novels, Tilly uses the villagers own superstitions against themselves, scaring them into leaving her son alone.

Meanwhile, she is running the mine that she used to work in, even going so far as to aide in rescue efforts.

Part two goes ahead approximately 15 years and a new scandal enfolds involving her son and the daughter of a man that once spurned by Tilly, now hates her with a passion, including her almost blind son. Will Noreen, the daughter of the bitter Simon, escape her locked prison and run to Willy's arms? Or will Simon kill Willy first? I must not forget to mention that Tilly's adopted daughter, while being spurned for her darker skin by all the townfolk, also loves Willy, but knowing she cannot have him, has decided to run back to America. Through all this drama, Tilly finally comes to terms with the fact that she too, loves a man again. Unfortunately for Tilly, the man she loves has waited over 30 years for her and now that she is ready to open her arms and her heart to him, he has found solace in the arms of another.

So much suspense and a wonderful conclusion to a superb trilogy.

5.0 out of 5 stars Tilly Trotter Widowed, May 14, 2008

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This review is from: Tilly Trotter Widowed (Mass Market Paperback)

I enjoyed reading and re-reading the Tilly Trotter series. I recently pruchased some other books by this author; she is an excellent writer and tells a story well. I would recommend other books by Catherine Cookson, especially the Tilly Trotter series.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful well written old novel., July 25, 1999

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This review is from: Tilly Trotter Widowed (Hardcover)

The triology of Tilly Trotter was very well written and a pleasure to read. I would like to read more of her writing.